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Articles by S. Ravi Shankar

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Limitation for statutory arbitrations in India

  S. Ravi Shankar   11 January 2019 at 13:04

Limitation to initiate a legal action is a globally recognized concept. Law of Limitation provides for a time restriction for initiating a legal action to an aggrieved party seeking to establish a legal right. That means even though you have a right, ..


Posted in Corporate Law |   961 Views


Are we still looking for committed than competent Arbitrators?

  S. Ravi Shankar   07 January 2019 at 12:29

Arbitration can be protected only by neutral and committed arbitrators but unfortunately none of us want to engage/ nominate an arbitrator who declares that he/she would be neutral always. Due to shortage of work, Arbitrators require canvas for their ..


Posted in Corporate Law  2 comments |   352 Views


Limitation to Challenge an arbitration award cannot be extended

  S. Ravi Shankar   20 December 2018 at 12:09

In a recent judgement (Simplex Infrastructure Limited Vs Union of India) dated 05.12.2018, Supreme Court of India dealt with the issue of condoning the delay in challenging an arbitration award under section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act ..


Posted in Corporate Law  1 comments |   486 Views


Failure to determine the Seat of Arbitration

  S. Ravi Shankar   23 November 2018 at 16:00

In a recent Judgment dated 25th September 2018, Supreme Court of India, in the matter of Union of India Vs Hardly Exploration and production (India) Inc reported as 2018 SCC Online 1640 allowed the petitioner to maintain an application seeking to cha ..


Posted in Others  1 comments |   657 Views


Delivery of Arbitration awards and Limitation to Challenge

  S. Ravi Shankar   21 November 2018 at 13:43

India being a country of Adhoc arbitrations, the responsibility to manage the arbitrations also is on the arbitrators. The said Management of the case includes framing of arbitration procedure, arranging meetings, fixing deadlines, drafting of procee ..


Posted in Corporate Law |   705 Views


Examination of expert and fact witness in international arbitration

  S. Ravi Shankar   19 November 2018 at 11:25

Arbitration is the private dispute resolution mechanism which is proved to be an effective alternate to the regular National Court dispute resolution through litigations in India. To become an arbitrator, there is no requirement of a legal or technic ..


Posted in Corporate Law  3 comments |   774 Views


Court cannot remand an arbitration award to the tribunal suo motu

  S. Ravi Shankar   03 October 2018 at 10:37

Even though arbitration is a private mechanism for resolving commercial disputes, the supervising courts have powers to supervise the arbitration and even to set aside an arbitration award on the grounds provided in the procedural law of the country. ..


Posted in Corporate Law  1 comments |   583 Views


Negotiating an International Arbitration Clause - Part 2

  S. Ravi Shankar   01 September 2018 at 13:18

Neutral Seat is a globally recognized concept that allows both the parties to the contract to choose a third country as the seat of arbitration. Such a neutral seat is selected, avoiding the countries to which parties to the contract belong to, as th ..


Posted in Others |   326 Views


Negotiating an International Arbitration Clause - Part 1

  S. Ravi Shankar   01 September 2018 at 13:18

Normally, parties do not realize the importance of negotiating dispute resolution clauses, while signing the contract since the commercial team which negotiates contracts would be focusing only on the commercial terms. But, the dispute resolution cla ..


Posted in Others  1 comments |   412 Views


Seat - Venue of Arbitration & Place of subject matter

  S. Ravi Shankar   25 July 2018 at 10:45

In a recent judgement dated 11.07.2018, Delhi High Court in the matter of HII Life care limited Versus Happy Lectricals (2018 SCC Online DL 9814) held that in case of not specifying the seat of arbitration in the arbitration agreement by parties and ..


Posted in Others |   562 Views